{"id":16896,"date":"2018-08-01T08:26:49","date_gmt":"2018-08-01T13:26:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=16896"},"modified":"2018-08-01T08:26:49","modified_gmt":"2018-08-01T13:26:49","slug":"hugging-president-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2018\/08\/01\/hugging-president-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"Hugging President Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Perhaps one of the most important results to come out of the upcoming mid-term elections will be the interpretation of the winners &amp; losers as a referendum on President Trump. You&#8217;ll note that I&#8217;m not saying\u00a0<em>the President&#8217;s policies<\/em>, because much of his appeal lies in his personality and his promises, kept or unkept. The performance of those Republican candidates who&#8217;ve clasped him to their breasts will keep my attention, because these candidates have bought as much into his personality as they have his policies.<\/p>\n<p>So, in this respect, the governorship of the state of Florida is up for grabs this mid-term, and the leader for the Republican nomination, Ron DeSantis, has only assumed this position because of the formal endorsement by President Trump, reportedly because DeSantis became a favorite interview subject of <em><strong>Fox News<\/strong><\/em>, where he reportedly praised Trump and his policies.<\/p>\n<p>Now he&#8217;s taken the next step, and this is where his venture becomes very interesting, because his new commercial, despite the suggestion that he&#8217;s more than a Trump-clone, does absolutely nothing to actually bring him to life as anything other than being a frenzied Trump-lover.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Casey\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2BYgM7yWgkY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>For those who didn&#8217;t want to waste those 30 seconds, DeSantis is featured with his small children, teaching them to build a wall, teaching them to read from Trump materials, and the like. It&#8217;s quite the unimaginative bleat of the sheep following the leader.<\/p>\n<p>Minus unforeseen disasters for DeSantis, I expect he&#8217;ll win the nomination, because the character of the <em><strong>GOP<\/strong><\/em> is now &#8220;The party of Trump.&#8221; But will the Trump-clone play well with the Florida independent voters to which he&#8217;ll need to appeal in order to win? Is his imminent nomination the opening Florida&#8217;s Democratic Party has been waiting for? Or does the elderly Florida population favor the xenophobic attitudes of President Trump and are ready to elect the guy clinging to Trump&#8217;s butt-hairs?<a href=\"#1\"><sup>[1]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A little over 90 days left to find out.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a name=\"1\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><sup>1<\/sup>The saying used to involve &#8220;coat-tails,&#8221; but it seems discourteous to use such an euphemism in today&#8217;s atmosphere of brutal remarks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Perhaps one of the most important results to come out of the upcoming mid-term elections will be the interpretation of the winners &amp; losers as a referendum on President Trump. You&#8217;ll note that I&#8217;m not saying\u00a0the President&#8217;s policies, because much of his appeal lies in his personality and his promises, \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2018\/08\/01\/hugging-president-trump\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16896"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16896\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16903,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16896\/revisions\/16903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}